John Knox attacked her in The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regimen of Women, published in 1558, and she was prominently featured and vilified in Actes and Monuments, published by John Foxe in 1563, six years after her death.

The popular anti-Catholic polemicist John Foxe, who " placed Protestant sufferings against the background of ... the Antichrist " was instrumental in publicising accusations of torture in his famous Book of Martyrs, claiming that More had often personally used violence or torture while interrogating heretics.

This was eagerly repeated by later opponents of the Catholic Church, such as the English Protestant John Foxe.

Following the coronation of her daughter, Elizabeth, as queen, Anne was venerated as a martyr and heroine of the English Reformation, particularly through the works of John Foxe.

Many wealthy Protestants, such as John Foxe and John Cheke, fled England, and Walsingham was among them.

Not far away, in the opposite direction, was the boyhood home of John Foxe, the author of Foxe's Book of Martyrs.

Canadian sovereignty, originally ( 1870 – 80 ) only over island portions that drained into Foxe Basin, Hudson Bay and Hudson Strait, over all of them was not established until the 1880 transfer by Britain to Canada of the remaining islands ; the District of Franklin was established in 1895, which comprised almost all of the archipelago ; the district was dissolved upon the creation of Nunavut in 1999.

The King actively supported Wolsey, Fisher and Richard Foxe in their programmes of monastic reform ; but even so, progress was painfully slow, especially where religious orders had been exempted from episcopal oversight by Papal authority.

After Joan of Kent was imprisoned in 1548 and convicted in April 1549, John Foxe, one of the few Protestants opposed to burnings, approached Rogers to intervene to save Joan, but he refused with the comment that burning was “ sufficiently mild ” for a crime as grave as heresy.

Norfolk gave verbal assurances to Ridolfi that he was Catholic, though as a pupil of John Foxe, he remained a Protestant all his life.

He was taught as a child by John Foxe, the Protestant martyrologist, who remained a lifelong recipient of Norfolk's patronage.

John Foxe ( 1516 / 17 – 18 April 1587 ) was an English historian and martyrologist, the author of what is popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs ( properly The Acts and Monuments ), an account of Christian martyrs throughout Western history but emphasizing the sufferings of English Protestants and proto-Protestants from the fourteenth century through the reign of Mary I.

Foxe was born in Boston, in Lincolnshire, England of a middlingly prominent family and seems to have been an unusually studious and devout child.

In 1535 Foxe was admitted to Magdalen College School, where he may either have been improving his Latin or acting as a junior instructor.

Foxe took his bachelor's degree on 17 July 1537, his master's degree in July 1543, and was lecturer of logic, 1539 – 40.

After a year of " obligatory regency " ( public lecturing ), Foxe would have been obliged to take holy orders by Michaelmas 1545, and the primary reason for his resignation was probably his opposition to clerical celibacy — which he described in letters to friends as self-castration.

On the accession of Mary I in July 1553, Foxe lost his tutorship when the children's grandfather, the Duke of Norfolk was released from prison.

The latter group, led by John Knox, was supported by Foxe ; the former was led by Richard Cox.

Foxe was ordained a priest by his friend Edmund Grindal, now Bishop of London, but he " was something of a puritan, and like many of the exiles, had scruples about wearing the clerical vestments laid down in the queen's injunctions of 1559.

On 24 June the previous year, John Foxe had been ordained deacon by Ridley, after having taken up residence with the Duchess of Suffolk in the Barbican in order to be eligible.

Revisionist histories written by John Foxe, William Tyndale and Robert Barnes portrayed John as an early Protestant hero, and John Foxe included the king in his Book of Martyrs.

Within the church, William Lamont argues, the Elizabethan millennial views of John Foxe became sidelined, with Puritans adopting instead the " centrifugal " views of Brightman, while the Laudians replaced the " centripetal " attitude of Foxe to the ' Christian Emperor ' by the national and episcopal Church closer to home, with its royal head, as leading the Protestant world iure divino ( by divine right ).

By July, the synod, co-ordinated by Cranmer and Foxe, had prepared a draft document, The Institution of a Christian Man, more commonly known as the Bishops ' Book.

On the east it is connected with the Atlantic Ocean by Hudson Strait ; on the north, with the Arctic Ocean by Foxe Basin ( which is not considered part of the bay ), and Fury and Hecla Strait.

The Bay's funnellike shape ensures that the tidal variance at Iqaluit each day is about 7 to 11 m. This shape is due to the large outlet glacier centred over Foxe Basin during the Pleistocene glaciation, which gouged the Bay's basin, now flooded by the sea.

Foxe resigned from his college in 1545 after becoming a Protestant and thereby subscribing to beliefs condemned by the Church of England under Henry VIII.

As the political climate worsened, Foxe believed himself personally threatened by Bishop Stephen Gardiner.

Although Foxe clearly favored Knox, he was irenic by temperament and expressed his disgust at " the violence of the warring factions.

After the death of Mary I in 1558, Foxe was in no hurry to return home, and he waited to see if religious changes instituted by her successor, Elizabeth I, would take root.

Ælfthryth looks on as Edward is stabbed to death: from a Victorian edition of John Foxe | Foxe's Book of Martyrs

Protestant writers like John Foxe and John Ponet concentrated on the pious King Edward's achievements and reinvented Somerset as the " good Duke "— it followed that there had also to be a " wicked Duke ".

Protestant authors who wrote on the topic in the 16th century include the English historian John Foxe who published the Book of Martyrs in 1554 and the Spanish convert Reginaldo González de Montes, author of Exposición de algunas mañas de la Santa Inquisición Española ( Exposition of some methods of the Holy Spanish Inquisition ) ( 1567 ).

Because it is on the small island, one of Canada's national historic sites, of the same name, in Foxe Basin that is very close to the Melville Peninsula ( and to a lesser degree, Baffin Island ), it is often thought to be on the peninsula.

Before leaving the Lucys, Foxe married Agnes Randall on 3 February 1547.

Yet despite receiving occasional financial contributions from English merchants on the continent, Foxe seems to have lived very close to the margin and been " wretchedly poor.

Foxe quickly became associated with John Day the printer and published works of religious controversy while working on a new martyrology that would eventually become the Actes and Monuments.

Foxe published a third edition in 1576, but it was virtually a reprint of the second, although printed on inferior paper and in smaller type.

Foxe based his accounts of martyrs before the early modern period on previous writers, including Eusebius, Bede, Matthew Paris, and many others.

Here Foxe had primary sources of all kinds to draw on: episcopal registers, reports of trials, and the testimony of eyewitnesses, a remarkable range of sources for English historical writing of the period.

" Nevertheless, Foxe is " factually detailed and preserves much firsthand material on the English Reformation unobtainable elsewhere.

Foxe had dedicated Acts and Monuments to the queen, and on 22 May 1563, he was appointed prebend of Shipton in Salisbury Cathedral, in recognition of his championship of the English church.

He was also one of the twenty clergymen who on 20 March 1565 petitioned to be allowed to choose not to wear vestments ; but unlike many of the others, Foxe did not have a London benefice to lose when Archbishop Parker enforced conformity.

At some point before 1569, Foxe left Norfolk's house and moved to his own on Grub Street.

Although Foxe had written Norfolk " a remarkably frank letter " about the injudiciousness of his course, after Norfolk's condemnation, he and Alexander Nowell ministered to the prisoner until his execution, which Foxe attended, on 2 June 1572.

Another sermon Foxe preached seven years later at Paul's Cross resulted in his denunciation to the Queen by the French ambassador on grounds that Foxe had advocated the right of the Huguenots to take arms against their king.

Foxe died on 18 April 1587 and was buried at St. Giles's, Cripplegate.

There have been many lives of Oldcastle, mainly based on The Actes and Monuments of John Foxe, who in his turn followed the Briefe Chronycle of John Bale, first published in 1544.